Scaling study of the pion electroproduction cross sections and the pion form factor

Jul, 2007
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.C 78 (2008) 058201
e-Print:
Report number:
  • JLAB-PHY-07-679

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Abstract: (arXiv)
The 1^{1}H(e,eπ+e,e^\prime \pi^+)n cross section was measured for a range of four-momentum transfer up to Q2Q^2=3.91 GeV2^2 at values of the invariant mass, WW, above the resonance region. The Q2Q^2-dependence of the longitudinal component is consistent with the Q2Q^2-scaling prediction for hard exclusive processes. This suggests that perturbative QCD concepts are applicable at rather low values of Q2Q^2. Pion form factor results, while consistent with the Q2Q^2-scaling prediction, are inconsistent in magnitude with perturbative QCD calculations. The extraction of Generalized Parton Distributions from hard exclusive processes assumes the dominance of the longitudinal term. However, transverse contributions to the cross section are still significant at Q2Q^2=3.91 GeV2^2.
  • electron p: exclusive reaction
  • pi+: electroproduction
  • differential cross section: momentum transfer dependence
  • scaling
  • quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • cross section: factorization
  • pi: form factor
  • cross section: longitudinal
  • cross section: transverse
  • field theory: conformal